Welcome
to Mark's Pinball Page!
I've put this site together to chronicle my
interest in the home collecting of pinball machines. There is a
lot of information and photos of the games in my collection. Just
click on a link in My
Pinball Collection for
the game pages. PLEASE NOTE THAT I NO LONGER SELL THE WILLIAMS TEST CHIP.

Selling a pinball
machine? -I receive
numerous emails from folks who want to know what the value of their
pinball machine is and how to sell it. If your machine is an older
machine (pre 1980), I would suggest buying a pinball price guide from GameRoom
Magazine. To sell your machine
(any vintage), I suggest listing it on the free
Mr. Pinball Classifieds
or Gameroom
Classifieds. There
are numerous listings for machines form the 80s up to current Stern
releases, so to determine what your machine is worth just do a search of
the current for sale machines. If your machine isn't
working, subtract at least $250 dollars from the price of a working
machine. Remember, the condition of the playfield and back glass are the main factors in determining how much your machine is worth.

I've got photos and
coverage of the major East Coast Pinball Shows from the past few years
(Allentown, York and Wayne). Check
out the show index.

Firepower
Drop Target Retro-fit.
Following Ted Estes' Ted Estes' documentation
from rec.games.pinball a few years back. I converted one of my
Firepower's to the prototype configuration. I have documented and photographed
the entire process

I've owned over 40
pinball games. I have pages on many
of of machines, loaded with photos, facts and stories about each. Click
here for my game index.

Latest Updates:

November 11, 2010 -
I'm still here! Thanks for all the support and emails this past year. While I may not be updating the site on a regular basis, I'm still available if you have a question regarding your System 3, 4, 6 or 7 Williams game. Just email me!

March 21, 2009 -
I want to take this opportunity to thank all of you who have sent me emails letting me know how much you appreciate the site and the repair guides. It's nice to know that
all of the work that went into them was worthwhile. If you have a specific question and email me, please be patient as I do read all of the requests and respond, but it may
take a week or so. My area of expertise is Williams Solid State games in the System 3 to System 7 range. If you have questions about other manufacturers or Williams games from
other eras I probably won't be of much help.

I just finished "rebuilding" the game room area after numerous water issues (some due to nature, some due to leaking appliances! You can see some of the water stains on the floor in the photos below). The remaining games
in my collection include Firepower (the drop target retrofit gamed), Black Knight, Grand Prix and Hot Tip. I also have a Base Hit pitch and Bat, a Tarus shuffle bowler, an Atari Super Breakout and a 1958 Seeburg 161 jukebox.

Here is a closer shot of the pinball line up:

February 27, 2007 -
Some fun site facts: The most visited page (other than this page) is the System 6 Repair page. Since they've been up, there have been over 90,000 hits on the repair pages. Trailing way back in second place is the Mylar Removal page with about 18,000 hits. The most viewed game page (this caught me by surprise), Disco Fever! (17,800 hits), trailed closely by Black Knight with 17,600 hits and Firepower with 13,000 hits. The game with the least amount of hits, Stern's Big Game with 3,500 hits.

February 11, 2007 -
I have to confess that I've been just about completely out of the hobby for the past couple of years. I still own my Black Knight, Fire Power, Hot Tip and Tarus Shuffle Alley,
but the rest of the games have been sold off. I attribute this to pinball burn out. I lived and breathed pinball for about 5 years, buying, selling and reparing games. It
finally got to the point where I didn't want to see another pinball machine! That being said, I still get between 10 and 20 emails a week with pinball questions. I try to
answer all of them, especially the Williams related questions. Keep them coming! If I can help out, I'll try.

So what do I do know that I'm not living pinball 24/7? I have two teenaged daughters, so we've traded most of the pinball machines in on two quarter horse geldings.

This update was actually prompted by a movie I watched the other night. One question I get a lot from younger pinball fans (anybody under 40 is "young" in my book!) is "what were arcades like
"back in the day"?" If you're curious, check out the movie Dazed and Confused. Its set in 1976 and chronicles the last day of school for a group of Texas high schoolers.
One of the main locations is an arcade, with a Bally Fireball having a leading role. Lots of close ups of zipper flippers! The movie is currently playing on Encore and the Indie channel
on cable (February of 2007), and if you have Comcast digital cable, its on OnDemand. I highly recommend the movie, having graduated high school in 1975, I can tell you that the
movie captures that time period perfectly.

September 5, 2005 -
Not too many updates over the past year. I've sold off a good deal of the collection. At Christmas 2004, I sold Flash
, Disco Fever and Time Warp. I sold High Speed (that was sad to let go!) over the summer. The collection was getting
too large to maintain and it was turning into a business rather than a hobby. So I've "thinned the heard" down to about 8
working machines to keep it fun. I still have Scorpion, Time Fantasy and Blackout to get fully working, and I'm looking
forward to working on them over the winter.

October 11, 2004 -
Well, I had planned to make it a weekend at the York show, I was even
planning on bringing my Flash, Timewarp and Disco
Fever. However a series of last minute commitments
ruled the show out this year. If you took photos at the show and
don't plan to post them on your own web site, I'd love to get copies so
I can update my show pages with some photos from this year.
Just drop me an email.
Thanks in advance!

September 1, 2004 -
I've sold the Williams Fantastic, so no more photo requests
please! In its place I picked up a Williams "Base Hit"
pitch and bat.

August 30, 2004 -
Its been a busy summer! Updates have been few and far between, but
I plan on doing some major work on the site soon.

PHOTO REQUESTS -
While I'd love to help out, I get a large number of requests for
specific machine photos every week, mostly from the pinMame crowd.
Unless you're publishing a book, I can't provide you with photos other
than what is on the web site. If you're in the South Jersey area,
you're welcome to stop by and take all the shots you want yourself.

May
1, 2004 - I just got back from the 2004 Allentown Pinball Wizards
Convention. I went out on Friday evening, arriving around 4:30 and
played pinball most of the evening. We stay through Saturday and
browsed through the flea market in the morning before heading back at
noon. I have about 50 photos on the camera which I'll be working on
getting up onto the site during the week. Check back later in the
week for the photos! The show itself was again very good, and I'll
have a full review up shortly.

Congratulations to
Smarty Jones on his Kentucky Derby victory today! We have
several connections to the Derby Winner. Our horse, Special Dreams,
was bred and originally trained and owned by
Robert Camac, the trainer who bred Smarty Jones and then died before he
was born. Smarty Jone's jockey, Stewart Elliot, rode our horse to a
second place finish back in November 2002, and then watched his rear end
for 5 1/2 furlongs as his horse finished second to Special Dreams in his
last race at Philadelphia Park in January of 2003.

April 22, 2004 -Is
it pinball, or is it the world's largest pitch and bat?
Yours truly is at the controls of
what the Phillies have labeled as a
"pinball" machine, however astute readers of this page
will notice that this is actually a pachinko style pitch and bat,
and not a pinball machine. Bottom line though is that its a
fun game to play. The "ball" is about the size of
a basketball, and its not that easy to score on the thing.
They give you three outs, and all I managed was a single. Click
here for a larger photo of "Ballpark Pinball".

April 19, 2004 -What's
with the ads? The proceeds from board repairs and ROM sales use
to pay the bandwidth costs for the site. I've gotten out of
the board repair business to spend more time on my own collection and
there are a lot of players in ROM burning these days which has caused my
ROM burning services to drop off considerably. With virtually no
pinball income to support the site, I've decided to
experiment with the Google ad system. They claim only pinball
related ads will appear (although computer repair ads seem to show up on
the MPU
repair page!) Hopefully enough of you will
click through to off-set the bandwidth costs. This site receives a
few cents for each ad you click on, so thanks in advance for checking
out the advertisers.
April 7, 2004 -Just
a reminder for those living in the Northeast that the Allentown Pinball
Wizards Convention is coming up in a few weeks. This year's dates
are Friday, April 30th, Saturday May 1st and Sunday May 2nd. The
outdoor flea market is on Saturday the 1st, and is the biggest on the
east coast. You can find details
at their website.I'll
be there Friday evening and at the Flea market on Saturday
morning.

I've
found that if you actually want to play pinball, then you want
to be at the show on Friday afternoon at 4pm when the it
opens. The crowds on Saturday make the hall an almost
unbearable place to be. The aisles are jammed and the wait
is 4 or 5 deep for machines. And with all of those folks
jammed in the heat gets notched up a few, and the place doesn't
smell like a flower vase.

Friday
afternoon on the other hand is mostly made up of vendors and
die-hard players. The best time is between 4 and 6, you
usually have your choice of machine. I think this year
however it will be a lot more crowded on Friday, since the word
has gotten out on the newsgroup and various sites (like this
one!) that Friday is the day to be there.

If
you go to play Friday evening, make sure you stick around for
the flea market on Saturday morning. Its the best on the
east coast, and with the lack of auctions this year, I expect
that it will be busier than ever! The best stuff goes
early, so plan on getting there no later than 7am if your
serious about buying.

(all photos
from the 2002 show)

April 5, 2004 -Opening
Day! What a great day, everybody's in first place for a few
hours! My wife and I are big baseball phans, both of the Phillies
and our local Independent League team, the
Atlantic City Surf. We did our annual trek down to Clearwater a
few weeks ago and took in several Phillies games, ate much more then we
should have at Lenny's, spent a day at the races at Tampa Bay Downs and
even took in a Yankees game at Legends field (I have to admit it, it was
cool being 20 feet away from Arod & Jeeter). While we weren't
able to score any opening day tickets, we did get tickets for the April
3 "unofficial" opening day exhibition game versus the
Indians. Jim Thome sure made it his "house" when he it a
home run off a 2-1 count on his first at-bat!

For
those outside of the Philadelphia area, the Phillies are moving
into their new home this year. A New England based bank,
Citizen's Bank, for some unknown reason spent $85 million for
the naming rights to the stadium. (note to Red Sox fans,
do you want to keep your money in a bank that spent $85M on the
Phillies <g>!) The Phillies played at Veterans
Stadium from 1971 through 2003, while a good idea in 1971
(anybody remember Connie Mack stadium?), it didn't hold up well
and was blown to bits a few weeks ago. The new park is
baseball only, with real grass (grown here in Hammonton!) and is
a great place to take in a game.

(note
- click on the photos for a larger version).
We arrived about 30 minutes before the gates opened and were
about 15th back in line.

Here
I am supporting both of my teams. This photo makes it look like
I'm about to explode! The weather forecast called for
partly sunny skies and a game time temperature
of about 55. It turned out to be cloudy most of the day
(the sun came out for a few minutes in the 6th inning and
received an ovation). The weather was
more fitting an Eagles game than a Phillies game. At least
it didn't snow...

While
we were waiting in line, the Phanatic started making his way
through the crowd. He was posing for photos with folks in
line and when he got near us, my wife asked if she could have
her photo taken with him. The Phanatic decided to have a
bit of fun with her and started asking for a little "palm
grease" to have his photo taken. It took a second,
but Anne finally figured out what he was doing, and this photo
is her say "oh, you want to be paid!". The crowd
around us got a good chuckle over their antics.

She
must have been pretty convincing, as we got the posed
shot!

Our
seats were in section 237, which is the last section on the
second level. We walked the entire park, and I don't think
there is a bad seat in the house! The only part of the
park I think they could have done better at would have been to
make the concourse in the outfield (near Ashburn Alley)
wider. All of the specialty
food concessions are out there (Geno's steaks, Bull's BBQ), as
well as the monument area and
Bullpens, and it was quite a traffic jam trying to get
through. They've tried to pack so much stuff in that I
think during the construction process the concourse just kept
getting narrower as new items were added. But, that's a
minor problem, and there were 42,000 people exploring the
stadium, so hopefully during the season with an average crowd it
will be easier to get around. All in all, the Phillies
Management did a great job on the Park. Thanks!

This
photo was taken from the ramp on the third base side, and shows
the remains of the Vet. May it Rest in Peace...

February 23, 2004 -Wow,
its been almost a year since I've tackled a full restoration
project.

The "time
twins", Time Fantasy and Time Warp

The
drought is over, I started work this past weekend on the
restoration of my Time
Fantasy
(Williams, 1984). Time Fantasy was an extremely low
production machine (608 units) made during the arcade recession
of the early 80s. I found a NOS playfield on the Mr.
Pinball classifieds last month, it pays to read those emails
every day! This will be my first full playfield swap, so
I'm documenting every step. Check back over the next few
weeks to check on the progress!

January 2, 2004 -Time
for the Year in Review Again! 2003 was a "slow" year for
me as far as coin-op was concerned. We adopted an off-track thoroughbred
race horse in late spring and I sold off a number of machines to finance
the clearing of land and the building of a paddock in the back yard to accommodate
our newest critter. While we hired a professional to do the
clearing, we built the fence and his run-in shed ourselves, so that
process consumed most all non-working time I had available.

So with out further a due,
here are the high and "low" lights of 2003...

A NIB Stern arrives, a
NIB Stern leaves.... I purchased a NIB (new in box) Stern Lord
of the Rings in December. Another "sight unseen"
purchase, but the early buzz was great on this machine, and it has a
theme that everybody in the family could agree on. I won't bore
you with a review here, but we've had the machine almost a month, and
its still a blast to play. I wish I could say the same amount of
good things about Roller
Coaster Tycoon (RCT),
my last Stern NIB purchase. After buying a NIB Monopoly
in October of 2001, I had high hopes for RCT. It was the second
Pat Lawlor (of TZ and Addams Family fame) game for Stern, and I figured
it had to be a great game. What a classic theme for a pinball
game, Roller Coasters. Williams had the trio of coaster games,
Comet, Cyclone and Hurricane, and Pat stated that he wanted to make this
game the next in the series. He even was including the "dunk
the dummy" shot made famous in Comet. The game was licensed
from the computer game, where you need to "build" your
park. What a perfect theme for a pinball game, make the shots and
"build" the park. The game arrives! Its
beautiful! Those ramps are so cool! Hold on, what's the deal
with this troll? Yeah, they were cute in their day, but the voice tracks
on the game, I had a headache after three plays. And what was the
deal with the "scrambled eggs", the lamest effect every put on
a playfield. After less than 200 plays, I sold them game.
Pat, I hope you learned that you need more than your name to make a game
great.

Knock-knock - do you
sell pinball machines? I could have listed my Dr. Who and Road
Kings for 6 months on Mr. Pinball before I got the price I wanted.
I had a knock on the door one evening and the stranger at the door said
he heard I sold pinball machines. I told him I collect machines
and occasionally sell them, but he was
welcome to take a look and see if he liked anything. He did, and I
delivered the two machines the next day. I wish all my sales were
that easy!

Say goodbye to Pharaoh,
Space Shuttle, Roller Coaster Tycoon, Dr. Who and Road Kings. Say
hello to Time Fantasy, Fantastic, Lord of the Rings and Scorpion.

Maybe this year I'll
finally finish by Blackout?

December
11, 2003 -Lord
of the Rings arrival and unpacking pictures are up! Click
here for the photos.This is my third NIB (new in box) pinball
purchase, the previous two being Monopoly (October 2001) and
Roller Coaster Tycoon (August 2002). I sold RCT back in
early October (I couldn't take the troll's voice one more time
screaming "Hit me!") and a surprise sale of my Dr. Who
and Road Kings left a void in the game room that needed to be
filled. After an unsuccessful search for a Theatre of
Magic locally I decided to take the plunge and ordered a LOTR.

Time will tell how well the game
holds up, but the game seems a winner! The theme is
fantastic, the shots are great, the playfield is just packed
with cool stuff, but still open enough to have some great game
play.

You would
think the arrival of such a mystical themed game would be heralded
by more than just a call from your daughter stating "hey,
your pinball machine is here, they dropped it off by the
garage". The arrival of my other two
NIB machines (Monopoly,
RCT) were
mini-events in themselves, with the big 18 wheeler pulling up in
front of the house, my backing up the pickup to the lift gate
and the machine being almost ceremoniously
lowered into my truck.

Not this time, I headed home
(rain was in the forecast), and muscled the machine into the
garage, stopping to take an official "arrival"
photo. Alas, it will sit in the garage for at least
another day until I can get it down into the basement. The
entrance to the basement happens to be currently blocked by a
Haunted House (in pieces, including an extra playfield!) and my
recently obtained Scorpion. With the holidays, we have
events to attend almost every evening, and I have a horse shed
to complete over the weekend, so I'm hoping
to get the game down sooner than later!

December 1, 2003 -I finally found a Scorpion! I've
been looking for one for about two years and have had no luck locating
one. I had one lead on a project in Boston that never panned out
and I missed an auction that had one in
the junk pile. I had let everybody in the area know that I was
looking for one and a lead finally showed up (thanks Ron!) which lead me
to a machine about 30 minutes away in Blackwood. According
to the seller on the phone, it worked
"perfectly", having been "professionally" maintained
since he owned it. What I found was a machine that did indeed
work, albeit with a serious switch matrix problem. The diagnostic
switches were missing, so it was impossible to see how the bad the
problem was. However, the playfield was in decent shape, the
backglass was acceptable and the cabinet was in decent shape, so I
agreed to the seller's price (he wasn't budging), and I finally have my
Scorpion!

If you're not familiar
with Scorpion, it was the last of the early Solid State wide bodies
that Williams produced. It was released in early 1980, just after
Firepower, however it feels "older" than Firepower. The
early Williams wide bodies were not the most exciting games ever
produced (think Pokerino!), but Scorpion was probably the best of the
breed. It featured two ball multi-ball, a timer feature and had an
upper set of flippers that formed a "mini" playfield within
the main playfield. I'll be doing a full restoration on this
machine in the near future, so stay tuned!

November 14, 2003 -I've added a page for the Williams
Fan-tas-tic that I picked up at the York show. I've
started tackling my project machines. The first was Grand Prix,
which I've had on the bench for almost 15 months. I finished the
playfield last week and finally got the machine working 100% last
night. Pictures coming soon...

For those
not from the Philadelphia area, this was the last year that the
Phillies played at Veterans Stadium. They move across the
street into Citizens Bank Park for the 2004 season. The
Eagles moved out last year into their new stadium. The
"Vet" opened in 1971, replacing the aged Connie Mack
stadium (formerly Shibe Park) for
baseball and the Eagles moved in from Franklin Field
(University of PA's
stadium). While the Vet was held in disdain by most
visiting teams and by a younger generation of Philadelphians, it
was a vast improvement from the creaky Connie Mack and the
wooden bleachers of Franklin Field. I attended my first
Vet game in June of 1971, a surprise 8th grade graduation
present from my dad, and had the honor of attending one of '83
World Series games against the Orioles.

November 5, 2003 -
The York show review and pictures are up! Click
here for my show review.
Capsule review, show was good, but nothing like the past few
years. Only 63 machines running at noon, maybe 50 at 2pm. I
did make an impulse buy and bought the 1972 Williams EM "Fan-tas-tic".
Its a fun and kind of quirky machine, but I found myself playing it more
than any other machine at the show, so that was my sign to take it
home. Pics will be up soon.

October 30, 2003 -
There are new releases of the Williams System 6 and System 7 test
chips. The new images are available by clicking
here. The
memory test now shows its results on the LEDs, no more clipping a LED to
pin 15 of the MPU! Part
4 of the Repair docs have
been updated with the new test.

If you purchased a test
ROM from me in the past, I will upgrade your chip free of charge, I just
ask that you include $2 to cover the return mailing. If you don't
have my address, send
me an email.

October 22, 2003 -
I've sold a few machines this past week. Roller Coaster Tycoon,
Dr. Who, and Road Kings have all gone onto new homes.

September 5, 2003 -
If you're new to the web site, enjoy browsing around! For those
who regularly visit the site for updates
(and there haven't been many lately), I just want to bring you all up
to date on what's going
on.

We
acquired (adopted would be a better
word), a 3 year old thoroughbred race horse over the summer.
His racing days are over due to an injury to one of his knees
which he suffered at his last race on January 14th at Philadelphia
Park (he won, paying $6.40). Not being horse people, its
been an interesting summer learning what to do with this 4 legged
"hayburner" in the back yard. For those who follow
racing, he comes from a great line, his father is
Stormy Atlantic and he has Seattle Slew, Secretariat and
Native Dancer in his blood line.

This has put a
large crimp in my hobby time, so the pinball machines have taken a
back seat for awhile. I have a series of projects lined up
for the winter, including finishing my Blackout and Grand Prix and
starting on the Haunted House project, so check back for updates.

April 21, 2003 -
In addition to moving the web site last month to a new host, I've been
involved in physically moving my company's office location. This
has left me absolutely
no time for pinball (although we did move Monopoly into the new office!)
or web site updates. I am also not able
to accept any board repairs via mail at this point either.

February 3, 2003 -
Time for another road trip. I needed to drop someone off at the
airport at 5am, so this trip got an early start. I made it to
Harrisburg, PA by 7:30 in the morning to pick up a Williams Time
Fantasy, a System 7 game
that has to be seen to be believed!

January 7, 2003 -
A new year and time to edit the page down. I've moved a bunch of
the previous updates to the "best of" from last year,
including all of the show pages.

December 31, 2002 -
Just a thanks to all the folks who check back here every once and while
to see what I'm up too. I'm amazed at the amount of people who I
talk to and tell me, "I already know that, you posted it on your
web page!". My coin-op Highlights of 2002 include:
- Taking the drop-target converted Firepower
to the Allentown
show back in May
- Getting my Black
Knight back.
Thanks Tony!
- Buying a NIB Roller
Coaster Tycoon.
- Publishing my System
3 to 7 Repair Guide and
working with Clay on his.
- Filling out my collection of classic Williams Solid State
Machines. I added Hot Tip, Lucky Seven, Disco Fever, Contact,
Tri-Zone, Stellar Wars and Laser Ball to my collection this year. Still
looking for an Alien Poker, Algar, Phoenix and Scorpion. (I can
pass on a Pokerino!)

Biggest disappointment of the year, not doing any work on my Blackout
restoration project
since March! I did buy a new playfield for it this year, so maybe
2003 will be the year.

December 17, 2002 -
Time for a "mini" road trip! I've been getting my
machines locally lately, so I haven't done a road trip in quite a few
months now. I actually bid on a machine on Ebay (something I
haven't done in over 2 years), and was the only bidder on a Williams
Laser Ball. The machine was located west of Baltimore, so I took
the morning off and did a 5 hour round trip to pick it up (and made it
back to the office in time for a 1/2 day's worth of work!).

What's interesting about
this machine is it has been HUO (home use only) since 1982 and the
person I bought it from got it at a charity auction in 1992. When
the current owner brought the machine home, it didn't work, so he left
it in the corner for the past 10 years! Watch for photos soon.

November 29, 2002 -
More machine moves, and both to/from their original owners, go
figure.. I sold my Captain Fantastic back to Jimmy K., who I
originally bought it from about 18 months ago. And today I bought
my Black
Knight back from Tony P.
who I had traded with about a year ago.

Back
together again! My Black Knight rejoins Firepower and the rest of
Williams line-up after almost a years absence. Yes, its the same
machine I traded near the end of 2001 for a TZ. While the TZ was
an excellent game, I missed my BK after only a couple of
days.

November 12, 2002 -
Picked up four new machines this past week, a Williams World Cup (1978),
Bally Xenon (1980), Williams Pharaoh (1981) and a Gottlieb Haunted House
(1982). Say goodbye to my Data
East Phantom of the Opera,
it went as my half of a trade for the Xenon and HH.

November 1, 2002 -
I'm
workingonsomemajor
updates of the System
3-7 resources page.
Most notably I'm combining the Bench Testing page with the
Troubleshooting guides. Section 4, MPU
Board Troubleshooting is
up in beta format now. Once completed, I'll be taking the Bench
Testing page off-line.

September
14, 2002 - I
attended the Classic
Pinball Show in Wayne, NJ today. Forgot the camera, so no
photos. I'll make sure I don't forget it for the York show
next month! Picked up this cool neon "PINBALL" sign
for the game room.

Update 12/2/03 - I've
had a lot of emails regarding this sign over the past
year. You can buy one from: Neon
Specialists, LLC in Hamden, CT, phone 203-230-8300.

The best of previous
updates - If you've been here before you know that I list all
updates to the site in this space. Its getting pretty long, so
I've decided to condense last year's updates into a "top 10"
list of things you might want to check out...

- Show
Photos! Here are the pages for some of the recent East Coast
shows:

- Firepower
Drop Target Retro-fit.
Following Ted Estes' Ted Estes' documentation
from rec.games.pinball a few years back. I converted one of my
Firepower's to the prototype configuration. I have documented and photographed
the entire process

I've been collecting
machines for a few years now, but my interest in Pinball dates back to
the mid 1960's when I was first introduced to pinball. This
is when games were 3 balls for a nickel or 5 balls for a dime!

My collection
currently consists of mostly Williams early Solid state machines.
I played quite extensively in the late 70s and early 80s and was
addicted to the Williams machines. Just like the old potato chip
ads, you can't just have one, and the collection has steadily grown over
the past years. At last count, I've owned 40 different machines
(some are dupes), with the current count standing at 26, with 15
operational.

My absolute favorite
game of all time is Williams Firepower!
If you were a player at the time of its introduction you know
why... I currently own four of them and have restored and sold a
fifth. I recently completed a drop
target retro-fit on
one. It was the second game I purchased for my collection and still
the game I play more than any other by a 5 to 1 margin.

I spent a good deal of
time in 2002 writing my own
Williams System 3 to 7 repair guide and
working with Clay on his guide (the infamous "marvin"
guides). My guide is a "living" document, and will be
updated constantly as I find new repair tips as I work on my machines.

I'm located in
Hammonton New Jersey which is located about 1/2 way in between
Philadelphia and Atlantic City. If you're ever in the area, drop
me a line!

My
Pinball Collection (past and present): after
a game indicates pictures and more info, just click on the game name

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